Displaying an integer value in a numeric edit field in App Designer

I am trying to make an edit field display an integer value instead of using scientific notation. I would like to do it in a Value Changed Function after the code seen here:

% Value changed function: AmbientFieldEditField
        function AmbientFieldEditFieldValueChanged(app, event)

            value1 = app.AmbientFieldEditField.Value;
            app.Ba_mag = value1;

I have tried a few things with no success such as:

int8(round(app.AmbientFieldEditField.Value,0));

I am not sure if I am even on the right track. I will also eventually need to apply the same change to the Z-axis of a 3D plot.

The edit field:

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

This is related to the display format. In the property inspector, loof for the ValueDisplayFormat property. The default is $11.4g. Change it to %g.

You can also set this programmatically.

app.AmbientFieldEditField.ValueDisplayFormat - '%g';

[Joshua Mitchell]

Thank you Cris! that worked perfectly. Do you have any similar recommendations for the Z-axis of a 3D plot?

This example doesn't show the issue, but theoretically the end user could have up to 5 digits on the Z-axis and that ends up displayed in scientific notation as well, it looks like the value display format isn't a field in the axes menu:

[Cris LaPierre]

For plot axes, you'll find the following functions helpful

• xtickformat
• ytickformat
• ztickformat